Knapsack Pro
Knapsack Pro
CodeFresh CIhttps://codefresh.io |
Rancher Pipelineshttps://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/project-admin/tools/pipelines/ |
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| Unique feature |
Built for Kubernetes
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DevOps tool for container orchestration
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| Type of product |
SaaS / On Premise
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On Premise
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| Offers a free plan |
Yes Offers a minimal free plan (only one concurrent job, 3 users, various other limitations) |
Yes Free, open source project |
| Predictable pricing |
Yes Easy price calculator, based on the number of machines, concurrent jobs and special features. |
Yes It's free! |
| Support / SLA |
Yes Paid support for enterprise plans |
Yes Paid support available: https://rancher.com/pricing/ |
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Paralellism
Every CI servers tends to address this differently (parallel, distributed, build matrix). Some of it is just marketing, and some is just nuance. For this table, parallel means that tasks can be run concurrently on the same machine, distributed means that tasks can be scaled horizontally, on multiple machines How to split tests in parallel in the optimal way with Knapsack Pro |
Yes
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Yes You can run multiple parallel steps within a build stage |
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Distributed builds
distributed means that tasks can be scaled horizontally, on multiple machines How to split tests in parallel in the optimal way with Knapsack Pro |
N/A Unclear from the documentation (probably not) |
N/A Unclear from the documentation (probably not) |
| Containers support / Build environment |
Yes Built for Kubernetes, so containers are a must. |
Yes
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Analytics / Status overview
Analytics and overview referrs to the ability to, at a glance, see what's breaking (be it a certain task, or the build for a specific project) |
Yes They seem to provide pretty great status overview, depending on the type of plan you're using. |
Yes Not particularly clear, but it appears you can monitor stats in a Grafana dashboard: https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/project-admin/tools/monitoring/ |
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Management support
How easy is it to manage users / projects / assign roles and permissions and so on |
Yes
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Yes User management is available, with specific roles assigned, or permissions to certain resources and projects |
| Self-hosted option |
Yes Only available for enterprise plans |
Yes
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| Hosted plans / SaaS |
Yes
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No
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Build pipelines
A continuous delivery pipeline is a description of the process that the software goes through from a new code commit, through testing and other statical analysis steps all the way to the end-users of the product. |
Yes Pipelines as code (YML files) |
Yes Pipelines as code (YML files), but also manageable via the UI |
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Reports
Reports are about the abilty to see specific reports (like code coverage or custom ones), but not necesarily tied in into a larger dashboard. |
Yes
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Yes
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Ecosystem
Besides the official documentation and software, is there a large community using this product? Are there any community-driven tools / plugins that you can use? |
Yes Every step in a CodeFresh pipeline is a Docker image. A wide array of steps is available over at https://steps.codefresh.io/ |
N/A
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Specific language support: Ruby
Some CI servers have built-in support for parsing RSpec or Istanbul output for example and we mention those. Some others make it even easier by detecting Gemfiles or package.json and automate parts of the process for the developer. |
Yes Specific documentation for a sample Ruby-on-Rails project: https://codefresh.io/docs/docs/learn-by-example/ruby/ |
N/A Pipelines / CI is just a small part of Rancher. No specific support mentioned. |
| Specific language support: JavaScript |
Yes There's an 'npm publish' step available, and they also provide a few Javascript examples over at https://codefresh.io/docs/docs/learn-by-example/nodejs/ (one is just a sample, one is a little more complex, using Redis, Python, etc., and one is a React App) |
N/A Pipelines / CI is just a small part of Rancher. No specific support mentioned. |
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Integrations
1st party support for common tools (like Slack notifications, various VCS platforms, etc) |
Yes https://steps.codefresh.io |
Yes Integrations available for GitLab, GitHub and Bitbucket |
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API
Custom integreation is available, via an API or otherwise, it's mentioned separately as it allows further customization than any of the Ecosystem/Integration options |
Yes Rich REST API available, well documented at https://g.codefresh.io/api/ |
Yes REST API available. It provides introspection and documentation: https://github.com/rancher/api-spec/blob/master/specification.md#filtering. It should offer enough access to allow building whatever customizations or integrations with 3rd party tools deemed necessary. |
| Auditing |
Yes Audit logs available: https://codefresh.io/docs/docs/enterprise/audit-logs/ |
Yes Allows logging to various systems (Kafka, Elastic, etc) which should make audit possible |
| Additional notes |
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Rancher is a full software stack for container orchestration, going as far as building their own Linux distribution (RancherOS). Using Rancher seems more like a decision to be made considering all other features Rancher offers, not just the CI server. Also worth noting that Rancher uses Jenkins under the hood, but the engine is locked so projects can't just be migrated between the two. |